{"id":5712,"date":"2012-06-28T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2012-06-29T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T14:50:57","slug":"herons-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5712","title":{"rendered":"Heron&#8217;s still here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The just published,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofcanadasbirds.org\/State_of_Canada's_birds_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The State of Canada&#8217;s Bird, 2012<\/em><\/a>, tells us that for Canada&#8217;s West Coast and Mountains, the Great Blue Heron is a &#8220;strongly decreasing species&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If this is true, it is a shame; the heron is a beautiful aspect of Kootenay Lake. Here is yesterday&#8217;s picture of one flying along the lakeshore.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5714\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/heron120627bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The just published,\u00a0The State of Canada&#8217;s Bird, 2012, tells us that for Canada&#8217;s West Coast and Mountains, the Great Blue Heron is a &#8220;strongly decreasing species&#8221;. If this is true, it is a shame; the heron is a beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}